You like Black Brant?

Hey everyone - The long term black brant project that I was a part of for 15 years is in desperate need of some help to make the project happen this year. Two grant proposals were recently declined and some of us are trying to raise $30,000 to maintain a project which has been occurring since 1946. The hope is money can be raised to allow this year of data to be collected while new funding proposals can be developed for the future. We are planning on doing an online fundraiser with raffles and auctions on April 7, 2018. If you can help with donations, we'd like to hear form you. One thing in particular we are hoping to do is get 12 black brant decoys to auction of a custom black brant rig. I'm in for a decoy, as is Mike Hruby and Pat Gregory, and hopefully some others can hop in. Donated brant hunts from both coasts are very encouraged too. Black Brant are known for being banded, likely longer than most folks know, and we need some help to continue this effort. We made a facebook page to keep folks informed and more news will be coming............ PLEASE SHARE OUR NEW FACEBOOK PAGE!https://www.facebook.com/Black-Brant-Research-2014242845497460/

Chris hopefully they can make this a sticky. Hopefully CWA can kick in a little to help this project out as CA hunters benefit and harvest black brant. Create some way to donate. If I don't buy anything in the auction, I will donate to the cause if there is a way.

Tarsal bands and they eat better than specks. Plus they are the dumbest of all waterfowl. Who doesn’t like black brant?? I’ll try to play in the auctions, although I rarely hang with those with deep pockets. I’ll buy some raffle tickets too, and tell the people in my limited circle to pony up or else. $30k is not a huge number in the waterfowl community. Hopefully the project can continue. I don’t do Facebook, so please keep us posted here.

Sitting on a park bench......eyeing little ducks with bad intent.

I hated that movie. Too long and boring and not enough boobies. - Ash Williams

Maybe the Black Brant dinner in Morro Bay can help out talk to the people down there as they have a fund raiser dinner every year. Our own Black Brant is a member of this forum and dinner down in Morro bay. I donate to that dinner every year this year I made them a special Black Brant walking stick.

Ed Miller (Black Brant) is a great guy. If you guys remember the old CWA mag, Chris' kid(s) were donning a Black Brant beanie on the cover. Cool stuff. Ed would be the main POC for looking info funding potentials but Chris might've already known that.

bandman58;9550249 said:

Whats with all the quoting and quoting and quoting time after time after time everyone??

Thanks for the interest guys. Yup, been in touch with Ed at Morro Bay. He was there for my kids first night in a tent nearly 10 years ago when we attended their dinner. Here is a photo from her this year. She rips it up with the .410 side by side; all the decoys she made. I'll keep posting to this thread as things develop. I know brant are special to a number of folks and we wanted to reach out in these tough times.